Hermit crabs are one of the most interesting and popular creature to be owned as pets
. With their wonderful and strange looks they are becoming a choice of many pet lovers around the world. Anyone who is unfamiliar with their presence and tends to buy a pet could give up the thought to own any thing else other than these beautiful pet crabs. To care and maintain them is an interesting job too, providing shells they cover them selves with or giving them a natural environment that match their original aquatic or land habitat to let them stay in extreme comfort and care freeness are some points that makes them special and beloved.
Originating from the ocean of the Caribbean sub continent as specifically the aquatic typical hermit crabs or the Ecuadorian hermit crabs which are found to crawl and live on the land, these innocent and peaceful but yet phenomenal creatures are just fabulous.
Once these crabs are bought home people immediately gets on to the job of arranging their area of residence in a particular part of the home. As it is mentioned above, providing them a right shell or, proper feeding, regulation of temperature on the basis of their nature of adapting moisture in the surroundings and so on. Every thing can be managed regularly as its get in to a hermit crab pet owners daily routine of looking after and caring of their pet crab.
As these things are pretty much important for a healthy life of the pet crab it is equally important to go through deeply and inspect the tank they reside in to make sure the presence of deadly germs and bacteria that may occur with the food that is left over and gives a foul smell and hence identified if attention paid at the right time. If attention is not paid properly and particularly in the surrounding area of the tank of the pet it is quiet likely that the pet develop a parasite called hermit crab mites found as small tiny spots on their legs.
Methods like bathing the crab three to four times as soon as the mites are identified and then cleaning the tank along with its other installations like food plates and sand etc shall be thoroughly cleaned and boiled at its maximum and then cleaned with a new cloth. Hermit crab mites if not inspected and treated with proper manner could lead serious trouble to your pet crab and could even prove deadly. If all such simple methods of the pet hermit crab is followed could let them live a long life and with ease.